DuckDuckGo VS Google

If you haven’t been following it then you might be surprised
that a young start-up by the name of ‘DuckDuckGo’ is challenging the
mighty search giant Google. But on February 19, 2008, the new
privacy-focused search engine emerged and was incorporated. The main
difference between DuckDuckGo and Google is that DuckDuckGo claims not
to track your searches, and not to customize search results based on
your previous searches. DuckDuckGo also offers many features that Google
does not such as a Clean modern interface, Automatically Searching a
site, and many more. However, it should be noted that most of the
features that DuckDuckGo has that Google doesn’t aren’t really all that
useful in your everyday searching experience. DuckDuckGo also does not
rely heavily on a Web crawler, but instead API’s from other search engines like Bing, Yahoo, and smaller specialty search engines such as Sound Cloud.

While all this sounds great, Google still has the advantage over
DuckDuckGo when it comes to actually finding you what you want. Because
DuckDuckGo won’t track you, and won’t give you personalized results, you
also won’t be getting as relevant results as you would by using Google.
Another thing is that even with its many API’s and Search Sources
DuckDuckGo has a much smaller Index than Google so when you search you
will find far less relevant results simply because there is less
diversity. Overall it comes down to Privacy VS Better Results, as
DuckDuckGo offers Privacy, but Google offers better results.

By Kyle Piira

I'm a computer science student at the University of Massachusetts and the founder of the Hoxly Corporation.